Yeah, going to go ahead and disagree with you there. You can play terrible decks and win in MTG too - even the most dominating decks rarely post better than 60-65% vs. the field. In fact, I would say that standard W:I is a much worse format than MTG standard right now, because of Bolt Thrower's choke hold on the format, and don't even compare it to MTG Legacy for number of viable archetypes...

If your complaint is "Min/maxing 'Spike' types shrink the card pool" well... fine, but thats a CCG/LCG-wide complaint not limited to one game. OTOH Single set for W:I does alleviate that to a degree by forcing you to play more cards - but on that point, my biggest concern with banning the "power 9" (see what I did there?) of 3x Warpstone/3x Innovation/3x Contested Village right now in single set is that the dropoff in card quality would be enormous. We're already teetering right on the precipice playing 41 other cards; including 9 more means playing some real drek.

Still haven't figured out the "best deck" yet in this format, and I've been playing nothing but this and draft since I originally posted the idea. I'm not sure there is a best deck. If there is, Dwarves might be it but there are certainly a lot of other potential archetypes. Overall, the format seems more healthy than the standard format right now.

Did I mention that I like Mining Tunnels? I like Mining Tunnels.

Alright, back on topic. Things that I'm not keen on in Single Set:

* I wish that Alliances were 3x.

* More support destruction! All the viable support destruction is 1x and I'm not sure that's good.

* Warpstones are just as stupid as they are in the standard format.

Things that I like:

* No Bolt Thrower deck (this is nothing but pure win).

* Matches up really well with people's actual buying habits, especially non-hardcore players.

* I cannot figure out whether there is a best deck and there are a whole lot of possible options.